Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/self-help/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0008 405368 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/self-help/engine/rss.php:0 Alice Walker - Free Library Land Online - Self Help https://self-help.library.land/ ru Alice Walker - Free Library Land Online - Self Help DataLife Engine The Color Purple https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31867-the_color_purple.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31867-the_color_purple.html The Color Purple
Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she’s badly treated by her family. As a teenager, she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own implacable will to find harmony with herself and her home. *The Color Purple*’s deeply inspirational narrative, coupled with Walker’s prodigious talent as a stylist and storyteller, have made the novel a contemporary classic of American letters.  This ebook features a new introduction written by the author on the twenty-fifth anniversary of publication, and an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.]]> Wed, 25 Aug 1982 12:30:56 +0400 You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31865-you_cant_keep_a_good_woman_down.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31865-you_cant_keep_a_good_woman_down.html You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection *In Love & Trouble*, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Temple of My Familiar https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31864-the_temple_of_my_familiar.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31864-the_temple_of_my_familiar.html The Temple of My Familiar
**In Walker’s follow-up to **** *The Color Purple* ****,**** webs of characters are drawn toward critical confrontations with history **  In* The Temple of My Familiar*, Celie and Shug from *The Color Purple* subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants, to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America, to Celie’s own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, all must come to understand the brutal stories of their ancestors to come to terms with their own troubled lives.   As Walker follows these astonishing characters, she weaves a new mythology from old fables and history, a profoundly spiritual explanation for centuries of shared African-American experience. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.]]> Fri, 25 Aug 1989 12:30:56 +0400 In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31869-in_search_of_our_mothers_gardens_prose.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31869-in_search_of_our_mothers_gardens_prose.html In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose
**Walker’s collection of early nonfiction serves as the manifesto of a young artist—and an illuminating self-portrait**  What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and her search for paths toward self-possession and freedom always holds out hope for the transformative power of compassion and love. Whether she’s taking on nuclear proliferation, the promise and problems of the civil rights movement, or her own creative process, Walker always brings to bear a fearless determination to tell the truth.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.]]> Thu, 25 Aug 1983 12:30:56 +0400 The Third Life of Grange Copeland https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31862-the_third_life_of_grange_copeland.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31862-the_third_life_of_grange_copeland.html The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Despondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North. After meeting an equally humiliating existence there, he returns to Georgia, years later, to find his son, Brownfield, imprisoned for the murder of his wife. As the guardian of the couple's youngest daughter, Grange Copeland is looking at his third -- and final -- chance to free himself from spiritual and social enslavement.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Possessing the Secret of Joy https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31868-possessing_the_secret_of_joy.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31868-possessing_the_secret_of_joy.html Possessing the Secret of Joy
**An American woman struggles with the genital mutilation she endured as a child in Africa in a *New York Times* bestseller “as compelling as *The Color Purple*” (*San Francisco Chronicle*).** In Tashi’s tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo female genital mutilation as an initiation into the community. Tashi manages to avoid this fate at first, but when pressed by tribal leaders, she submits. Years later, married and living in America as Evelyn Johnson, Tashi’s inner pain emerges. As she questions why such a terrifying, disfiguring sacrifice was required, she sorts through the many levels of subjugation with which she’s been burdened over the years. In *Possessing the Secret of Joy*, Alice Walker exposes the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation in an unforgettable, moving novel. *This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.*]]> Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:30:56 +0300 In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women: Stories of Black Women https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31870-in_love_and_trouble_stories_of_black_women_stories_of_black_women.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31870-in_love_and_trouble_stories_of_black_women_stories_of_black_women.html In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women: Stories of Black Women
Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women--women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together by what they share in common.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Anything We Love Can Be Saved https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/33494-anything_we_love_can_be_saved.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/33494-anything_we_love_can_be_saved.html Anything We Love Can Be Saved
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.]]> Sat, 13 Sep 1997 14:17:55 +0300 By the Light of My Father's Smile https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31866-by_the_light_of_my_fathers_smile.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31866-by_the_light_of_my_fathers_smile.html By the Light of My Father's Smile
"By The Light Of My Father's Smile" presents a celebration of sexuality, its absolute usefulness in the accessing of one's mature spirituality, and the father's role in assuring joy or sorrow in this arena for his female children, " says Walker. "It examines the ways imposed religion almost always acts to inhibit and harden the hearts of those who would instinctively love, and presents the richness and coherence of an alternative culture's experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, " she adds.The story begins at an outpost in the remote Sierras in Mexico, where an African American family (two daughters and their partners) from the United States come to live for several years. The father, who narrates much of the novel from the grave, finds his fifteen-year-old daughter Magdalena, having sex with a local boy named Manuelito. He beats her in a scene witnessed by her sister, Susannah. While both daughters are wounded by the beating, it is Magdalena who remains scarred throughout her life by this incident. However, it is because of Manuelito and his tradition that reconciliation between father and daughters eventually happens. Manuelito is a Mundo, a deeply spiritual and wise tribe of mixed race, both Black and Indian. The Mundo are unimpressed by a world concerned primarily with exploitation and monetary gain. They treasure their relationship to the earth and ultimately teach the father, who believes his daughter's sexuality is evil, that in fact sexuality is a blessing. In the end, it is the Mundo way of life that leads the father back to his daughters.]]> Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:30:56 +0300 The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/33495-the_way_forward_is_with_a_broken_heart.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/33495-the_way_forward_is_with_a_broken_heart.html The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart
"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become." So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker about her beautiful new book, in which "one of the best American writers today" (The Washington Post) gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. Imbued with Walker's wise philosophy and understanding of people, the spirit, sex and love, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage—a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is an enriching, passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review).]]> Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:17:55 +0300 We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/461060-we_are_the_ones_we_have_been_waiting_for.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/461060-we_are_the_ones_we_have_been_waiting_for.html We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
A "stunningly insightful" essay collection from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Publishers Weekly).

From the prolific writer, poet, and activist Alice Walker, comes a compilation of writing and speeches on advocacy, struggle, and hope. A New York Times–bestselling "collection of righteous speeches and essays . . . is Walker the cultural pioneer back on top form" (The Guardian).

Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive...]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:19:20 +0200 Meridian https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31863-meridian.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/31863-meridian.html Meridian
Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the limits beyond which she will not go for the cause, but despite her decision not to follow the path of some of her peers, she makes significant sacrifices in order to further her beliefs. Working in a campaign to register African American voters, Meridian cares broadly and deeply for the people she visits, and, while her coworkers quit and move to comfortable homes, she continues to work in the deep South despite a paralyzing illness. Meridian's nonviolent methods, though seemingly less radical than the methods of others, prove to be an effective means of furthering her beliefs.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 By the Light of My Father's Smile https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/88270-by_the_light_of_my_fathers_smile.html https://self-help.library.land/alice-walker/88270-by_the_light_of_my_fathers_smile.html By the Light of My Father's Smile
By the Light of My Father's Smile is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post).
A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream. Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores in this magical novel the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much prized and necessary original self; and how she regains that self, even as her family's past of lies and love is transformed.
By the Light of My Father's Smile presents, as Alice Walker puts it, "a celebration of sexuality, its absolute usefulness in the accessing of one's mature spirituality, and the father's role in assuring joy or sorrow in this arena for his female children." It explores the richness and coherence of alternative culture, experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, of trust in Nature and the Spirit, even as it affirms the belief, as Walker says, "that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that forgives. And that love is both timeless and beyond time."
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